RE: DHCPv6 - does it have gateway option

"Leino, Tammy" <tammy_leino@mentor.com> Tue, 18 September 2007 13:19 UTC

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I had this same discussion with the DHCP working group a few weeks back.
The end result was that there should always be an IPv6 router on-link
configured to transmit RAs.  They could not fathom why an IPv6 network
would not have an IPv6 router on-link.  That is why there is
intentionally no DHCPv6 option for distributing the gateway.

Best Regards,
Tammy




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From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com]
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Subject: Re: DHCPv6 - does it have gateway option


On 18-sep-2007, at 8:02, Bill Manning wrote:

> 	presume the absense of a router.

It almost seems like the DHCPv6 designers did...

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